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Podcast: Sahel and North Africa week in review 7 Jan 2023F

Greetings to our second episode of Week in Review and a quick summary of what we are tracking in the Sahel and in North Africa. Today is Saturday, the 7th of January 2023. This past week was somewhat subdued in the region largely due to the year-end holiday season and...

Sahel: Mali avoids escalating regional crisis by pardoning jailed Ivorian soldiersF

Mali's junta leader on Friday pardoned all 49 Ivorian soldiers whose arrest in July triggered a bitter diplomatic row, a government spokesman said, just a week after the courts sentenced them. "Colonel Assimi Goita... granted a pardon with full remission of sentences...

Mali: Unidentified armed individuals kill five people on Bamako-Segou roadF

Two firefighters and three civilians were killed on Monday night in an attack in southeastern Mali, the ministry of security and civil protection said Tuesday. A sixth person was also wounded. At around 9:00 pm, the Civil Protection Road Rescue Post of Markacoungo, in...

Sahel: Ivory Coast hands down four life terms to 4 Mali nationals for 2016 jihadist attackF

A court in Ivory Coast on Wednesday handed down life terms to four Malian men convicted of abetting a jihadist attack on a beach resort that left 19 people dead. The court in Abidjan, the country's commercial hub, found the four "guilty of the deeds for which they...

Sahel: French military allegedly tried to use journalist Olivier Dubois to track JNIM leader before his kidnappingF

Sahel: French military allegedly tried to use journalist Olivier Dubois to track JNIM leader before his kidnappingF

May 17, 2023

French forces tried to use a journalist's visit to northern Mali to track a jihadist leader but failed to prevent the...

Sahel: Mali-UN relations worsening by the day as Malian forces are accused of committing mass murderF

May 15, 2023

Mali's military junta on Saturday denounced as "fictitious" and "biased" a UN report that said the army and foreign...

Mali: Government of Mali confronted with accusations of “summary executions, rape and torture”F

Mali: Government of Mali confronted with accusations of “summary executions, rape and torture”F

May 12, 2023

The Malian army and foreign fighters executed at least 500 people during an anti-jihadist operation in Mali in March...

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